Why not use obvious names and concepts coming from fictional characters
universally known (Mickey Mouse, Superman, etc.) ?
Trying to use characters related to its use could help, imagination power...
Jacques
From: "Adrian Crum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I understand what you're saying, but at the same time
I would hate to see us avoid including meaningful demo
data based upon a fear that someone might use it mess
things up.
I'll postpone making any changes until others have had
an opportunity to comment.
-Adrian
--- David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm all for more demo data, but I'm not sure how
much a I like
anything that appears to be real... and the main
reason for that is
that it can be error-prone if people accidently load
the data or
something.
-David
On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> I'm picturing how the demo data can be built out
so
> that new users can have a better idea of how
> components and processes interact.
>
> Take the existing Demo Customer for example. Why
can't
> that person have a name? In addition to any
existing
> data, I could have them post forum messages about
> items they purchased.
>
> Demo employees in the HR component could have demo
> data all over the place - member of a project team
in
> the project manager, moderator of in-house forums,
> foreman of a manufacturing production run, etc.
>
> Maybe this is a lofty goal, but I think it would
be
> helpful to have demo data that really looks like a
> deployed OFBiz instance.
>
> -Adrian
>
> --- David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Better, and more business oriented, demo data for
>> the content stuff
>> would be really great.
>>
>> Disclaimers are good, but another practice we've
>> been using is
>> "ridicularity", if you take my meaning. In other
>> words make the names
>> and such so silly (and entertaining, if you must)
>> that people will get
>> the idea. Using product names like widgets and
>> gizmos is pretty much
>> along this line. Some may not translate into
foreign
>> languages as
>> much, but they get the idea pretty quickly anyway
>> (yeah, I've seen a
>> lot of questions from clients around the world
and
>> sometimes in
>> English-speaking places too about what a widget
is
>> and what a gizmo
>> is...).
>>
>> -David
>>
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
>>
>>> I'm working on building out the forum feature of
>> the
>>> Content Manager component. I'm creating a more
>>> comprehensive demo data set and I'd like to make
>> the
>>> demo data more meaningful.
>>>
>>> Is there any reason I can't make up names for
>> people
>>> and businesses? We could have a disclaimer note
in
>> the
>>> demo data similar to movie disclaimers saying
that
>> the
>>> data is ficticious and any similarity to real
>>> people/businesses is coincidental.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> -Adrian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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